Marco Rubio defers to science…kind of.

Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida attempted to clear up Wednesday his controversial answer to a question about the Earth’s age last month.

“Science says (the Earth) is about 4.5 billion years old. My faith teaches that’s not inconsistent,” Rubio said at a Politico Playbook Breakfast in Washington. “God created the heavens and the Earth, and science has given us insight into when he did it and how he did it.”

Added Rubio, “Science has also established that people don’t rise from the dead. Fuck scientists.”

“The more science learns,” he continued, “the more I am convinced that God is real.”

…and that a woman was converted into a pillar of salt (chemistry), that a Jewish guy walked on water (physics), and that a global flood took place (geology). This guy wouldn’t know science if it was fucking him*.

* The more Marco Rubio reads science, the more he’s convinced that dudes can get pregnant.

When not defending the planet from inevitable apocalypse at the rotting hands of the undead, JT is a writer and public speaker about atheism, gay rights, and more. He spent two and a half years with the Secular Student Alliance as their first high school organizer. During that time he built the SSA’s high school program and oversaw the development of groups nationwide. JT is also the co-founder of the popular Skepticon conference and served as the events lead organizer during its first three years.

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